Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-25
LEGISLATIVE WORK.
List of the Most Important Measures
Passed.

The following is a list of important meas
urcs that have become laws at the session of
he legislature just closed:
COUNCIL BILLS.
10 provide for the registration and payment
OF Board of Education warrants. and to pre-
scribe the rates of interest thereon.
10 provide for the printing of 500 copies Of
the Act of Congress prohibiting specialfegisla-
ton by Territorial Legislatures.
PROVIDING that all surplus in mortgage sales
shall be paid to mortgagor instead of mort
gage.
To provide for the burial of Il Union soldiers.
sailors and marines who die in destitute cir
cImstances.
To provide that private corporations-except
insurance-may be formed BY the association
of three or more persons.
To provide that no Judgment shall he rem.
dered by any court until after such decision
mas been filed with the Clerk of the District
Court.
To amend the name of the Moravian Society
of Cass County.
To provide for subordinate officers of Coun-
Gil and House and their compensation.
To attach the Counties of Stanley, Sterling
and Nowlin to the County, of Burleigh for Judi
cial purposes.
To authorize the appointment of a legisla-
tive committee to confer with a like committee
from Montana or tho pleuro-pneumonia ques-
ton.
To allow legitimate mining interests to use
Rapid Creek for drainage purposes.
10 appropriate money for public printing.
To extend the term OF Office of County Audi
tors elected in 1885 one year.
10 provide for the issuing Of duplicate of
bonds or coupons lost or destroyed.
To place inmates of insane asylums under
the protection of the laws by securing to them
the right Of communicating with friends by
letter.
To provide for the maintenance and to en-
courage the organization of volunteer fire COM
panies in tho Territory.
Declaring and protecting the legal identity
of married women.
Providing the duties of Town Treasurer.
10 provide for purchasing session laws for
use OF members OF Legislature.
10 create q new subdivision of the Second
| Judicial District.
To enable the formation of County Mutual
Insurance Companies.
To increase the compensation of sherifs in
summoning jurors.
10 protect large game and quail.
! 10 provide funds for locating . Reform
| School at P%lankinton.
\ Requiring officers making attachments to
| make their returns within twenty days.
Authorizing cities, towns and villages to
fund outstanding indebtedness.
Requiring teachers in public schools to keep
a record of visits from County Superintend-
ents.
To provide for the issuance Of bonds by
cities and municipal corporations for school
and other purposes.
Providing for the organization of civil town.
ships and the government thereof.
Allowing mileage to court reporters.
Revising law entitled sLoan of money to
Black Hills"
To permit the construction Of bridges over
navigable rivers and providing the manner of
paying for the same.
nv N oy,1 thu E3roSn M M n ~y ~ oa ~ onI,a -
more effective.
Allowing the Justices Of tho Supreme Court
81, 500 a year for expenses.
To establish an experimental station at the
Brookings Agricultural College.
To authorize railway companies to appoint
To reimburse Geo. Lilley for moneys ad-
vanced to pay for furnishing and completing
of portions Of public buildings.
To compel owners Of vicious dogs to nay
damage caused by the same.
For tho maintenance of the public offices of
TO define the boundaries of Cavalier county.
Fixing the legal rates Of legal printing.
To provide funds for the construction of a
metallurgicai laboratory for the School of
Providing for improvements to the School of
Deaf Mutes at Sioux Falls and ~appropriating
$2S, OOO therefor.
To provide for the incorporation and regula-
ton OF DuuQln6 ana loan ASSOCIATIONS.
To remove the political disabilities of Henry
| Muchaw and restore him to citizenship.
Providing for the distribution of Dakota Su-
preme Court reports:
Establishing tho Office Of Public Examiner.
Providing for the payment of rent on the
tents used at the encampment at Fargo in 1856.
To provide for the government of the School
of Deaf Mutes at Sioux Falls.
To provide for furnishing to the sufferers
from hail and drought seed wheat the coming
year. -
Providing that persons foreclosing mort
cages shall be on titled to deduct COSTS from
proceeds. ~
certify to abstracts of title to real estate with
reference to taxes affecting property set forth
in abstract
HOUSE BILLS.
Memorial to Congress protesting against the
ramoval of Fort Abraham Linco n.
70 repeal law exempting Counties of Custer,
Lawrence, Pennington, Mandan and Forsyth
from the usury law.
tn nnrcha @ seventy-two copies OF Levlsees
Cole for use of Members of the Legislature.
TO repeal the act authorizing the Board OF
County Commissioners Of Nelson County to
fund outstanding Indebtedness.
Providing that Road Overseers snaA MAKE